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Our unique Cherry Blossom products celebrate the beauty of the spring season. In 1909 as a token of friendship between Japan and the United States, 2,000 cherry blossom trees were gifted by Japan to the District of Columbia. Locals and visitors to DC commemorate their visit to DC to see the cherry blossoms with special gifts from our shops and online store including sweatshirts, t-shirts, totes, tumblers, and more. Explore our Cherry Blossom Gift Collection.

Our Expert Design Team and Retail Buyer teamed-up to create a new line of products with our favorite theater sayings. Imagine your favorite theater sayings on magnets, buttons, greeting cards, a t-shirt, socks, and a 1,000-piece puzzle. Our NEW brightly-colored product assortment is embellished with popular theater sayings including: Drama Queen, Break a Leg, It’s Show Time, The Show Must Go On, I Heart Musicals, Take a Bow, and more. Gift them! Wear them! Display them! These are fun must-have products for Theater Nerds!

The Kennedy Center Gift Shops and online store have a handsome book dedicated to the new, modern expansion of the Kennedy Center – the REACH. Providing a new topology for performing arts centers and an up-close view of how art is made, the REACH was designed by one of America’s most influential architects and opened to acclaim in September 2019.  The REACH: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts / Steven Holl Architects offers a comprehensive look at the history of the project and includes programming initiatives by the Kennedy Center to memorialize President Kennedy and his significant contribution to the arts and American...

To passionate arts lovers, the words of John F. Kennedy’s words ring true today. “I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft,” (JFK, at Amherst College, October 26, 1963) reads one of the 35th president’s ringing exhortations, prominently chiseled on the walls overlooking the Kennedy Center terrace. Nearby is another: “This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.” (JFK, State of the Union Message, January 14, 1963) The Kennedy Center, a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy, honors our 35th President everyday by...

The R&B group Earth, Wind & Fire, the actress Sally Field, the singer Linda Ronstadt and the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas will receive Kennedy Center Honors in December for their lifetime achievements in the arts, the cultural center announced on Thursday. “Sesame Street,” which is celebrating 50 years on the air this year, will also receive an award, making it the second time the Kennedy Center is bestowing the honor on a work of art rather than an individual. (“Hamilton,” recognized last year, was the first.) It is the first honor bestowed to a television program.